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The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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Buprenorphine, an FDA-approved medication for addiction treatment and pain relief, cuts opioid overdose death rates in half. Yet the majority of people with opioid use disorder do not receive this medication-assisted treatment. This document provides answers to frequently asked questions…
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Hollywood, Health & Society, a program of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, provides writers and producers of films and TV shows with free and accurate resources on health.
The government has finalized immigration restrictions, creating a preference for wealthy, English-speaking, insured, and educated immigrants, while erecting hurdles for immigrants who are poor.
CHCF supported Hollywood, Health & Society in developing materials for entertainment industry professionals to more accurately depict addiction on television and in other programming.
Stories That Caught Our Attention: A new study suggests that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion reduced death rates among older adults with low incomes.
America has the power to prevent gun deaths. But only if our government — and specifically, our federal government — has the courage and humanity to act.
California is one of 22 states that do not permit nurse practitioners to practice and prescribe without ongoing physician oversight. Journalist Heather Stringer traveled to Colorado to see how nurse practitioners are being deployed in two rural communities.
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Innovative peer counseling is expanding access to mental health services and meeting patients where they are with culturally competent care.
Newborn care experts in Humboldt County are changing the way they treat babies born with opioid dependence. The babies spend less time in the hospital and receive less medication.
This interactive infographic highlights the areas within Medicaid where technology-enabled solutions can have the greatest impact, according to the more than 100 stakeholders that CHCF convened through its Primed Roundtable Series.